Growth mindset and discovering unexpected insights

More notes on Carol Dweck's mindset. I was in a conversation with an AI agent earlier today, using it to prompt me to really understand two things. First of all, where, I guess three things, where I want to go with my career and life, where my skills lie. And then the third thing, looking at those through the context of the way things are changing because of the commodification of the internet and then what is happening with AI.

And as we went through the questioning, I began to express how much I appreciate being the person who sees things that other people don't. And how I really value discovering unexpected insights and unexpected realizations. And it's one of the main reasons that I value questions so much. I always trying to poke at something because I don't want to just subsist on the assumptions.

Now how this relates to Carol Dweck is near the end of the book she is giving some dilemmas and then talking about how people would deal with them with the fixed mindset and how people would deal with them with the growth mindset. And it suddenly hit me that many of the ways that she talks about the way someone would approach these dilemmas with a growth mindset are interesting because, at least interesting for me, because they're doing exactly what I was talking about before. They are seeing things other people don't and they're coming at things from a different angle.

So it suddenly seems clear to me, beyond everything else that she's written in the book about why I should want a growth mindset, but if I really want to develop myself into someone like my fictional hero Sherlock Holmes, who sees things other people don't, or things other people miss, or is able to see things from an angle that nobody sees them at, then I have to develop a growth mindset because it is a growth mindset.